See Also: secrecy(dictionary)
secrecy(dictionary)
secrecy(medicine)
Bank secrecy(finance)
absent(2)(dictionary)
absent(1)(dictionary)
Eye, absent(health)
Absent(medicine)
absent-minded(dictionary)
absent state(medicine)

absent 1, adjective (oh) and secrecy (iou)


absent 1, adjective (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin, present participle of abesse, from ab- 'away' + esse 'to be']
not at work, school, a meeting etc, because you are sick or decide not to go
-opposite present present absent from
::students who are regularly absent from school
if someone or something is absent, they are missing or not in the place where they are expected to be
absent parent/father
::plans to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance
absent from
::Local women were conspicuously absent (=obviously not there) from the meeting.
[only before noun] a look etc that shows you are not paying attention to or thinking about what is happening
-see also absently absently
::The dull, absent look on her face implied boredom.

secrecy (iou)



secrecy noun. LME.
[from SECRET adjective + -TY1 or -Y3, prob. after private, privacy.]
The quality of being secret or of not revealing secrets; the action, ability, or habit of keeping things secret. LME.
sworn to secrecy having promised to keep a secret.
F. Burney I have Intreated Mrs Selwyn to observe the strictest secrecy.
A secret; the secret Nature or condition of something; in pl., secret matters, mysteries. arch. LME.
The state or fact of being secret or concealed. M16.
in secrecy secretly.
Ld Macaulay In spite of all injunctions of secrecy, the news..had spread fast.
b. Privacy, seclusion. E-M17.
The condition of being taken into a person's confidence; intimate acquaintance. L16-L17.